Sailboats on The Great Salt Lake

I spent a few hours on Stansbury Island and the south shore of The Great Salt Lake this past weekend…and while I know that I was a few to several hundred yards away from the freeway during much of the time, I can’t honestly remember hearing any of the traffic that passed behind me. I do, however, remember being entranced by the images of triangle sails moving ever so slowly on the lake’s horizon, the sounds of gulls calling above me, and the clouds that shone in their vivid whiteness in the crazy blue of the late February sky. All of that, combined with the chilly wind coming across the lake, made for an incredible afternoon.

Carrington Island is toward the left of center and Antelope Island is toward the right.

This is the east side of Stansbury Island, the second largest island in The Great Salt Lake, just west of Antelope Island.

It was a very quiet day out there, Allen, I think there were four boats on the lake, but far enough apart that they were essentially alone. And yes, #4 is kinda freaky like that…almost suspended somehow.

Thank you, Karen…it felt rather surreal at some points out there, especially the location where I made those last two images…it was almost like a sci-fi scene with the people out on the lake bed like that.